The mission seems to have become impossible today

Today at a time where Flemish and Walloon speaking to build borders, if not walls between them, and where targeted groups are whole aircraft rolled over from the French territory, what image itself Europe donnet - it in the world

The crisis policy, identity, and before any moral that traverse the Belgium is a new "Belgian history", a tragicomic exception sum any secondary or reflects a more general and more serious European crisis which the Kingdom of Belgium is the most extreme expression

The special status of Washington DC in the United States makes sense in the American federal system. But Brussels can remain the capital of the Union if it ceases to be the capital of a Member State of the Union

In Italy, was used to say that the Italian nation, in one hundred and fifty years of history, has always failed to establish a State worthy of the name. In Belgium it the State, established in 1830, by the will of a Walloon elite with the support of the France of Louis-Philippe, who had failed in his attempt to create a nation, despite the stability of the monarchy, the empire colonial and football

"Between Flemings and Walloons, there is so many similarities between Eskimo and musulmans" "When we listen today to French television some comments extreme of Flemings and Walloons now on the unity of the Belgian nation, cannot only ask what happened to European identity, and what may still be done to save the Belgium. Belgians and Iraqis are now United in a same inability to form a Government of national unity for long months. The situation is certainly more dire in Iraq, because of the violence, but would at the bottom more serious still in Belgium, in terms of national identity The nation is a referendum of daily said Ernest Renan. If, day after day, the referendum is negative, a divorce is inevitable.

It is no longer time to return to the well known causes of this situation. Irresponsible of some arrogance, the humiliation of others, the inversion of the complexes of superiority and inferiority between two communities, the complexity of the problem Brussels, the "treason" of policies, which, having not enough the meaning of the State, cannot "give life" to the nation Everything has been said. And if its inhabitants are more defined as Belgian, the Belgium is dead.

Belgian crisis and European crisis reinforce one and the other in a negative dialectics which led to the blocking. In reality Europe has as much need for the Belgium than the Belgium of Europe. Is this the European Blues wins the Belgium or the implosion of the Belgium which is threatening the European Union Are - this negative Brussels waves radiating Europe The possible establishment of a Republic of Flanders and Wallonia Republic would constitute a strong incentive for Catalonia and the Ecosse

A universe mental and political means on the architectural plan. The great French architect Christian de Portzamparc was commissioned to recreate on the rue de la Loi in Brussels a new neighbourhood that expresses the confidence and the hope of Europe in its future and its institutions. The mission seems to have become impossible today. Each country is pressures for its architecture and its neighbourhood. It is not Europe which projects in the future with an ambitious and unit project, the European nations who are celebrating their past in a metropolis who wonders if she still has a future. Will we step creating architecturally the contemporary equivalent of a tower of Babel In terms of image and reality, the desire or the resignation of the Belgium divorce is disastrous for Europe. Reduced Europe today may be sufficient to give back to the Belgian envy and the taste of living together. But Flemings and Walloons, whatever their fate tomorrow, must remain Europeans, that is open and respectful of the other citizens. If the Belgians still exist, they must be heard and fast for the Belgium as for Europe.